Jazz Finland Live

Three female voices combine with a fragile double bass, a well-rooted cello and percussion instruments that are older than humankind. ‘Garden’ creates a space where we like to tarry and spend some time looking round.

This work explores whether an understanding of how small a part we play in the continuum of human generations might make people embrace a way of life where our planet is not considered in the light of the opposing forces of resource exploitation and nature conservation but is seen as one big, flourishing garden.

The work combines contemporary vocal polyphony, jazz improvisation and sound art.

Josefiina Vannesluoma, vocals
Selma Savolainen, vocals
Virva Immonen, vocals
Sirja Nironen, cello
Mikael Saastamoinen, double bass
Jesse Ojajärvi, percussion
Mikko Sarvanne, composer, electronics

All ensemble members: objects, percussion, vocals

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Sibafest 25.1.–1.2.2020 is an attentive, profound, inquisitive and experimental festival that allows our voices to be heard and to join together. The artistic director of the festival is Aija Puurtinen.

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"An absolute “must jam” for anyone interested in the future of mind expansion." – Ryley Walker

Avantgarde trumpeter Jaimie Branch is a forward-thinking performer with a style steeped in free jazz and modern creative improvisation. Here she visits G Livelab to perform tunes from "Fly or Die II", which is the much-anticipated follow-up to her debut "Fly or Die", that was dubbed as one of the “Best Albums of 2017” by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, NPR Music, WIRE, and Stereogum.

Jaimie Branch, trumpet / Lester St Louis, cello / Jason Ajemian, bass / Chad Taylor, drums

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Tue 28.1.2020 at 7.00pm
Raahe Theatre, tickets 15/10/5€ at the door
Promotor: Rajatsi Association, www.rajatsi.fi 

Freshly out of Sibelius Academy with Doctor's Degree in hand, guitarist Sami Linna takes his quartet to the first Jazz Finland tour in January 28–February 7. The quartet – Linna accopanied by saxophonist Jussi Kannaste, Mikko Helevä in Hammond and American Dana Hall in drums – released their debut album on the stylish Timmion Records earlier this year.

"Take a pinch of classic Blue Note soul jazz, some stylings from the 1970's afrocentric movement, and streamed to perfection lines of a lead jazz guitar and you've put together the pieces of Sami Linna Quartet's sound. Their album on Timmion is one for the dark evenings, for the first rays of sunlight cracking through a summer mist, for the dance floors of the mind."
–Timmion Records–

Sami Linna Quartet on tour Jan 28–Feb 7, 2020

Sami Linna, guitar / Jussi Kannaste, saxophone / Mikko Helevä, Hammond B3 / Dana Hall, drums

Tue 28.1. Raahe, Raahen teatteri
Wed 29.1. Oulu, Voimala 1889
Thu 30.1. Kuopio, Maxim
Fri 31.1. Jyväskylä, Vakiopaine
Sat 1.2. Joensuu, Kerubi
Wed 5.2. Savonlinna, Kulttuurikellari
Thu 6.2. Salo, Bar Bizarre
Fri 7.2. Espoo, April Jazz Club

Jazz Finland is the leading organization for promoting jazz culture in Finland and Finnish jazz abroad. Jazz Finland produces two tours in Finland in the spring of 2020, and supports two additional tour productions.

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